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Anyone ever find a Freemason counterstamp on a coin?
GritsMan
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I found one last night on a 2006 P nickel. It looks kinda cool, and I'm wondering if anyone has any info on this practice? Thanks!
P.S. It's the classic square and compass symbol with the G in the middle.
P.S. It's the classic square and compass symbol with the G in the middle.
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And Longshot, do you know anything about this tradition? Was there any special reason for it other than to be cool? Interestingly, I found it while searching through 18 nickel rolls from eastern Montana and a buffalo nickel (dateless) popped out of this same roll. The rest of the rolls had zilch except for one 49-D in poor shape.
<< <i>Are the rest of yours from the Freemasons? >>
Only the one.
Out of the group I posted I think the meanings are:
First are Kennedy designs, the date 1963 for JF Kennedys assasination then they came back on the 1972-73 cents. Maybe the later ones are for RF Kennedy? The 1969 is a Mason symbol.
Some are moon landing designs, the lunar lander on the moon with crew walking, command module orbiting and earth on the horizon dated 7-20-1969. Not sure about Abe with the pipe, maybe woodstock in 1969? Also not sure about the S.
Others are bicentenial designs.
USA, liberty bell, soldier with 13 star flag and cannon, moose. The moose might be from a moose lodge.
Some of the Lincoln/Kennedy cents came glued to a fact card that says:
Lincoln was elected in 1860
Kennedy was elected in 1960
Both have 7 letters in their names
Both were shot on Fridays.
Both were shot in presence of their wife.
Both focused their work on civil rights.
Both had their elections contested in court.
Kennedy had secretary named Lincoln that warned him not to go to Dallas where he was shot.
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy warned him not to go to the theater where he was shot.
In both cases the next president/successor was named Johnson (Andrew Johnson then Lyndon Johnson)
Both names had 13 letters.
Both were southern democrats.
Lyndon was born in 1908.
Andrew was born in 1808.
Booth was a southerner favoring unpopular ideas.
Oswald was a southerner favoring unpopular ideas.
Oswald shot kennedy from a book warehouse then hid in a theater.
Booth shot Lincoln in a theater then hid in a warehouse.
Booth was murdered before his trial.
Oswald was murdered before his trial.
Booth and Oswald were born almost 100 years apart.
Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth each had 15 letters in their names.
Lincoln and Kennedys bodies were both carried in the same caisson.
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I'd jump on this, but am afraid the Masons would come after me? Isn't that why that Charles Mason guy went crazy back in the day?
And thanks for the other info, Grumpy.